D*FACE - A Street Artist from London

Dean Stockton is better known as D*Face; is a play on the word "deface" which is how many view the art of street artists in general when it shows up on public property. In that sense, Stockton plays directly into the public opinion that street artists 'deface property'. While that may be true street artists such as D*Face also contribute to society even if their actions may be considered legally destructive depending on how they convey their artistic vision on a surface.

JB ROCK - A Figure of Rome's Street Art Scene

JB Rock was born in Rome in 1979. He's graffiti first appeared on Roman streets in the early 90s.  

One of the most important names of Rome's street art scene, his style has evolved over the years, and next to his usual graffiti work he now experiments with different techniques. Whether he's exploring the life of the suburban outskirts or investigating a woman's body, his use of decorative styles and images is outstanding.

ZUMI - STREET ART FROM BUENOS AIRES

Zumi studied fashion design and began painting in the streets of Buenos Aires in 2006 after being introduced to urban artists that inspired her. She is one of the few female artists to take her work into the streets of the city.

Taking inspiration from nature and from her day to day life, Zumi combines idealized versions of flowers, trees and birds in her own unique natural landscapes. Filled with beautiful pastel colors, her graceful murals create oases of beauty amidst the crowded and noisy city streets. Stumbling on one of her pieces delicately draped across a concrete wall brings to mind ideas of peace, purity, and joy.

Zumi’s art is a beautiful example of the power of street art to positively affect urban environments and our interactions with them. She has recently moved to Sao Paolo, where she continues to paint both independent and collaborative works on the streets and in gallery settings.

DREYK The Pirate: A Unique Graffiti Artist from Athens

Dreyk started painting the streets of Athens 13 years ago in his early teens. A few years later, he started forming his ever recognizable sea-themed style. Influenced by his studies in design, amongst other things, he evolved to a more clean cut-thick stroke style as years went by. Why the sea? Well, almost all greeks have a deep love for the sea and travel, and Dreyk is no exception. In his case though, as it usually happens, it all started by accident. Painting his first pirate on a wall many years ago, people started calling him “pirate”, a fact that helped him find his own identity in street art.

Often using only blue and white paint, Dreyk creates a beautiful intersection of greek tradition and contemporary creativity, inviting athenians passing by to his dream world, directly evoking emotions of innocence and restlessness – ultimately stating that life, love, Athens – it’s all beautiful, it’s all simple. These virtues are thriving not only in Dreyk’s graffiti work, but in his work as an illustrator / visual designer as well. Indeed, even though he has managed to become well known from a very early age (working as a graffiti artist for athenian clubs and hotels), he prefers to remain a “pirate” as far as graffiti is concerned. It’s a part of him that will always be his hobby and not his profession – he makes his living working successfully in the publishing field.

GASER aka GASIC PAINTER - Collective

More than ten years of experience in the art of graffiti, illustration and graphic design, writer and artist Gasicpainter offers decorating services and advertising. For each assignment provides exclusive designs and personalized, and are adaptable to all types of support.

STREET ART By BUSTART

It would be of no surprise if the name Bustart (Swiss born street artist in 1983) rings a bell. This versatile street artist from Basel (Switzerland) has been dominating the streets of Amsterdam for quite some time now! You can’t walk the streets without seeing his stickers, stencil art, paste-ups or pieces. His street art is not limited to any medium and he always comes up with someting surprising.

There is no technique Bust doesn't use in his pictures. Freehand with paint-brushes, markers and cans or stencils up to 8 layers. For him, there's no limit!

His favourite tools are markers and spraycans and as background definitely concrete walls. Because it has its own structure and it's naturally grey begs for a new coating!

Bustart works, loves and lives with Zaira and this for more than 7 years. They both enjoy travelling, but not for the good weather, the sunshine or the beach! Instead, they are always looking out for good spots to paint and express themselves.
Amsterdam has always been a magnet for the two artists; the whole flair of the city is unique. So, after traveling to Amsterdam every year, both decided to move to their favorite town in the beginning of 2011. Right now Zaira & Bustart are the key artists giving the streets of Amsterdam an artistic look.

SWEET TOOF - Street Art from London

Sweet Toof’s work starts with and evolves out of his street art, whether as a solo graffiti artist or in collaboration with others. Like the streets of 1980s New York, Britain’s streets today are being reclaimed by an ever-increasing army of street artists of which Sweet Toof is one of the most prolific and artful.  Typical tags, throw-ups, and more elaborate street pieces become a whole language that informs his studio works.

Equally disciplined in traditional painting and printmaking techniques, Sweet Toof masterfully blends urban detritus with bygone decadence. Fusing ancient methods with modern materials, Sweet Toof’s imagery combines layers of historical and current cultural references to create unconventional, iconoclastic art that is at once both traditional and contemporary.

Mr.THOMS, a Funky Movement

Talent, humor and a little insanity. Meet Mr THOMS aka Diego della Posta, an Italian street artist. Mr.Thoms works with vibrant colors and geometric shapes to create movement. The walls he works on have a direct influence on his theme. His great understanding of architecture and body language allow him to grasp the essence of his characters and transcribe it to the walls.

His characters appear directed by insanity. They have a  funky sparkle in their eyes. His cartoonish portraits will make you want to stand up in move. This is what defines Mr.Thoms skills, his ability to depict movement onto the walls. You can feel the dog breathing, hear the musician playing and smell the alien’s paint. 

THE WAKS – a collective of street artists.

Self described as: “Artistic collective consisting of cool personas. (SLIPY, SICER, POIZ, LACTAS, JUNIOR, PANDA, JESPER)”. Great styles and crazy photo realistic characters. These youngsters broaden the horizon. THE WAKS!

Abstract 'Street Arting' by KEF

Born in Aachen, Germany in 1989, KEF is working his way up with his one-of–a-kind street-art paintings and abstract works.

In his youth he painted traditional graffiti – which became to monotone for him after discovering street art. In 2005 KEF developed two very unique characters with which he invaded the European street art scene. In 2009 KEF transformed his two characters into more abstract figures – which he then painted onto a variety of different surfaces or as large scale murals. 

STREET ART BY MAKATRON

 Mike Maka is a painter who works in a variety of media including street art, canvas and illustration. He has travelled and created work around the world, painting the Berlin Wall to the River Ganges. He received a scholarship at 20 to study art in New York, which lead to working as a bike messenger for 10 years in 10 cities, and leaving his mark on many walls.  Mike has exhibited extensively through Australia as well as group shows in Brazil, Japan and New York,  and has works in private and public collections locally and abroad, including aquisitions by the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

His work is preoccupied with the interface between man, beast and machine. Presenting a visual riot that stimulates the mind, Mike’s art conveys an imperative message to those confined in the concrete jungle to stay connected to the animal within them that lives in the natural world.

He is based in Melbourne Australia.

The KRAH – Greek street artist

The KRAH was born in the UK and raised in Athens.
He is a self taught artist that started drawing from a very young age.

In his teens he started painting in the streets of Athens. Doing his first murals with spray paint in 1997, he quickly became one of the most noted Greek street-Artists, not only in Greece, but internationally through his tours around Europe and Asian countries such as Japan and Thailand.

He started his working career doing murals, before moving on to illustrating magazines and books, and then working for advertising agencies. Later he moved on to working for fashion companies. It remains clear that his passion for street art underpinned all of his work and led him into creating work for galleries.

ETAM-CRU: Street Art By Graffiti Crew

This graffiti crew is off the hook. Their unique and elegant style makes for a refreshing change and their skills and craftsmanship is awe-inspiring. Their giant murals are fantastical and take you off to very special places in your head. 

Street artists Bezt and Sainer from Poland unite their powers to create large scale murals on walls throughout Poland.

C215: Christian Guémy - Graffiti Stencil Art

 

C215′s real name is Christian Guémy but he goes by his artistic identity, ‘C215′. His street art represents an exploration of animals, architecture, freedom and those forgotten about by society all in incredible detail and against a backdrop of overlooked places.    He has put work up all over the world in India, Israel, Poland, the USA, Senegal, Russia, Morocco, his home-country of France and of course, London.

URBAN STREET ART - INKFETISH

Some cool street murals from London-based artist Tom Blackford, aka Inkfetish. “Getting into street art was a natural process,” he says. “I started out playing around with graffiti in my teens, then in my early 20’s, I met people that really inspired me to start realizing my illustrations on a bigger scale.”

Inspired by Japanese comics, he has a dark sense of humour that permeates many of his characters.

Tom’s distinct colour palette, often twisted subject matter, technique and bold themes continue to resonate with a growing audience.

CUELLIMANGUI's street art influenced by Japansese prints

Cuellimangui is a street artist, from a small city in South East Spain, Orihuela.
He always had a passion for painting, but in 2004 he started doing it more seriously, between Altea and Orihuela, and later Valencia with old friends.

His subtle patchworks of organic shapes bring life to inanimate objects and the abstract forms he paints. According to him, he uses the walls, to create a dialogue between the viewer and his work and in this way he offers a new kind of communication. His work, he says, is influenced by surrealism, eighteenth-century Japanese prints, tattoo culture and urban aesthetics.

Street Artist SHAKA’s Amazing 3D Graffiti Art

The French street artist Shaka aka Marchal Mithouard is just full of talent. From quite incredible relief paintings on canvas to graffiti, Shaka incorporates a unique 3D style in his works. Awesome

It uses a process that allows him to sculpt directly onto the canvas. His theatrical scenes beyond the literal space of the work to create a bridge to the place where we are. The characters challenge us by their behavior often exacerbated. Faces are fragmented, ribbed, made of abstract shapes or figurative tending to complicate or to codify their behavior, giving the impression that they wear a mask. This show is a static call the meeting to deal with nonsense reflection of our way of being in everyday life.

STREET ART BY PHLEGM

Phlegm is born in North Wales. Phlegm is well known for his self-published comics and street art.

Street-artist Phlegm lives and works in Sheffield, England, more than 150 miles from trendy London, but his engraving-inspired reclamations of dilapidated walls and spaces deserve a wider audience.

Phlegm started keeping sketchbooks during his fine art degree 15 years ago to deal with the stuffiness of the course. After he graduated he felt that his art stagnated. Phlegm was inspired looking back at his sketchbooks; the relief of sketching to stomach his degree became his new work, which he enjoyed. He became a full-time comic illustrator, producing and selling comics from his home in Sheffield.

Phlegm's name derives from classical medicine, where the body was thought to have four main fluids (or humours). If you had too much phlegm in the system it was thought to lead to apathy. Comics were a release for Phlegm and a way to enjoy art again. His name acknowledged that fact, plus it was unusual, fitting his comics.

ROA – The street art activist.

Roa, a hugely talented Belgian street artist from Ghent, is renowned for his giant black and white animal street art. Roa started off in the street art scene painting animals on abandoned buildings and warehouses in the isolated industrial areas of his hometown. Today, Roa’s animals may be found slumbering on the sides of semi derilict buildings and peering out from shop shutters in citiy streets all accross the world from New York to Berlin and Warsaw to Paris.

The artist has visited London a couple of times, each time leaving his mark. His animals can be seen hibernating across the cracks of walls in Shoreditch and Brick Lane.  The works often take many hours to paint due to the huge scale and highly intricate nature of ROA’s street art. Consequently, most of his pieces are done with permission which means that his work usually sticks around on the street for a while (notwithstanding the efforts of local London Councils).

STREET ART By CHEMIS - in Benešov, Czech Republic

Graffiti writer known as Chemis comes from Kazakhstan. His works are known in Czech as well as in Europe. Visiting new places, experimenting with spraycan, making films and cooperation with organizations promoting human rights is an important part of his eight-year history of painting.

DALE GRIMSHAW – The lowest of the low

Regarded by his graffiti and street art peers as the lowest of the low – an art school boy with no place on ‘The Street’ – Dale Grimshaw is anything but, as he disproves his naysayers and negative commentators by producing some of the most unique and inspired urban decorations since Banksy first appeared on the art world’s radar.

Originating from the infamous East London scene, Grimshaw’s impressive woodcut prints and paste-ups have gained the attention of graffiti and art commentators worldwide. Formally trained as a fine art painter, Grimshaw was heavily influenced during his tuition by the New York art scene, and as a result developed his now signature graphic style.

His unique technique perfectly transitioned from canvasses to woodcut printed paste-ups, which saw him evolve in reverse to most street artists: from private galleries to public walls. Often focussing on personal or social commentary, each piece has its own clear energy and intent, distributed by his aggressive approach and fractured style that imbues each painting with its own sense of emotion and feeling.

ANDRES AMADOR's Stunning Sand Art

Andres Amador takes sand art to epic proportions on the beaches of San Francisco. Using an assortment of what appear to be garden rakes the artist shapes sand banks into beautiful art works with mass appeal.

STREET ART BY DOLK

Dolk Lundgren, or simply Dolk (Norwegian for dagger/knife), is a Norwegian stencil artist whose work has rapidly gained popularity since first being introduced to the masses via the Wooster Collective and Pictures on Walls (POW). Dolk’s profile from Stencil Revolution lists his occupation as “fluffer” and states his interests as “stencils, painting, exploring, sex”. His work has been exhibited in London, Berlin and the NUART Festival at Stravanger in Norway. Dolk’s early works were often attributed to Banksy due to similarities in style. But Dolk has since established himself as a master of the stencil in his own right.

CHALK ART by David Zinn

David Zinn has been creating original artwork in and around Ann Arbor since 1987, serving all manner of clients from small shops to major municipalities. His artistic style and professional approach are grounded in a desire to communicate concepts clearly, and with a sense of humor where appropriate. David has created posters, business logos, book illustrations, educational cartoons, museum signage, t-shirt designs, murals, greeting cards, environmental superheroes, corporate allegories and hand-painted dump trucks. His artwork has been reproduced in Canada, England, Scotland, South Korea, Japan, and Australia, and can also be found on the inside of dumpsters in Ann Arbor and the outside of buses in Anchorage.

David is a self-taught artist with a B.A. in Creative Writing and English Language from the Residential College of the University of Michigan. He has taught creative writing, scenic painting, and theatrical makeup design, performed in and directed several Gilbert & Sullivan operas, recorded audiobooks, and hosted two children's radio shows (The Rug Rat Revue on WCBN-FM and The Mud Pie Cafe on Michigan Radio). David is also a passionate sidewalk chalk artist, an avid whistler, and a haphazard ukulele player. 

ORTICANOODLES: God Bless Stencil

Orticanoodles is the pseudonym for two Italian artists, a very active and tight-knit duo, composed of Wally and Alita.

Wally was born in Carrara, where he attended Art School and in 1996 he moved to Milan to attend the course in Advertising Art Direction at IED (European Institute of Design). Here in Milan, he met Alita.  Both in love of the stencil technique, they began to create drawings and handmade posters, quickly making themselves known in the street-art world.

In 2004, they start their first illegal actions in the street, stickering and pasting up posters. In their laboratory, situated in the Ortica district in Milan, Orticanoodles logos took shape. With the subversive power of Zibe, Orticanoodles started a blazing activity in the streets, soon evolving into a real urban guerrilla campaign.

STEVE LOCATELLI

Steve Locatelli was born in Brussels. His passion for graffiti comes from the 90s. He started in the Brussels metro. Graffiti is truly a passion for this young artist who often plays with the boundaries of the forbidden. His works from the nineties and so on are often visible in places ‘illegal’. In 1998, the city walls have become exclusive places to let young people express themselves through this new art. It is at this point that he could give free rein to their imagination and develop his style.

ANAMORPHIC MEDUSA

                    “Medusa, Anamorph” painted by Ninja1 and Mach505 (Truly Design Crew).

SMUG – A graffiti artist from another planet.

When it comes to SMUG words tend to loose their meaning. A crazy guy from Scotland with some dope styles and a unique attitude fill out the puzzle of one of the most known and respected writers of the World. SMUG the real thing.

ARYZ – Graffiti kings do it better

Barcelona’s finest modestly brought to you. Exceptionally remarkable style managing to convey the mood of another world, colourful, beautiful, calm, spontaneous, ALIVE. Ladies and Gentlemen welcome to ARYZ WORLD, remember to keep your eyes tight and your minds open, the rest of the trip relies on these two magic hands from BARCELONA…

LIGHTPAINTING in Kazakhstan by Marko

          His amazing light-paintings combines nice light patterns and typography influences, which looks really great.

Exhibition: Rich Simmons JUST BE YOU TIFUL @ Imitate Modern (London)

 

Just Be You Tiful’ is an exploration of beauty through being yourself. Beauty through glamour, beauty through fetish, beauty in tattoos and above all, honesty. Simmons uses his graffiti background and style to interpret this honestly and to study how others perceive beauty in response. From 11Oct 2012 to 3 Nov 2012

VHILS – Street Art is about innovation!

VHILS is the tag name of Portuguese graffiti/street artist Alexandre Farto (born in 1987) He gained prominence when his work of a face carved into a wall appeared alongside a picture by street artist Banksy at the Cans Festival in London in 2008.

He manipulates a variety of surfaces to create his extraordinary vision. From the brick facade of buildings to peeling off layered flyposters, he reveals images that explore the sub-cultures and dynamism of a city.

ODEITH – The Portuguese essence of graffiti.

Born in Lisbon in 1976. He started drawing when he was only 10 years old. Since then the desire to draw better and to become recognized did never stop. His early years were devoted to bombing in walls in Sintra line. In 1998 he began to devote himself to large murals in areas of Damaia, Lisbon and Carcavelos and that year he was invited to join the crew WCB with Wize and Youth. 

The passion for drawing led him to enter the world of tattoos and in 2000, a year after making his first tattoo, he openned his own studio in Benfica, “eith Studio” (which was shut down in 2008) . During this time he continued to paint the walls of the city, always with the aim of improving their craft and this is how in 2005 he created a style of painting known as “Anamorphosis – Anamorphosis.” 

An anamorphic painting is to create an optical illusion effect observed from a particular angle. Due to the complexity of angles, lighting and perspective, is a style practiced by few artists. Odeith without any academic education, but provided with great determination, adds to this concept of painting another notion, a “multiple surfaces”, for example, 90 degree corner, visual effects passing the wall to the floor or even a fifth set of walls. 

Currently he is part of the crew LGN (Legionnaires) with Nomen, Vile and Molin.

MTO - Work in Progress

The French artist MTO aka Mateo is living in Berlin. He's well known for his black and white paintings depicting famous personalities from music and cinema. Enjoy!

HIT – Athens street bombing kings.

In one of the most heavily bombed capitals of Europe, one crew stands above the other’s. HIT CREW pure Athens terror.

L7M – Generating chaos.

L7m, was born in the countryside of São Paulo, in 1988, and since very early he started his relationship with art. In his childhood, he had participated of many contests and had also won many cultural awards. When 13 years old he had his first contact with the spray, which opened his eyes for new tecniques and consequently new experiences and mixtures with china ink, latex, pastel and acrylic.
Everything generates the chaos, since the mixture of outlooks and feelings to the materials and medias utilized. The revolt by the human sorrow, the beauty of life, the city’s disarray, the neglect and the surroundings, all this things transposed and influencing the works of this artist, who evolved with all his feelings focused in the street art. L7M, how he’s known, is identified by the simplicity of colors and free geometry relacionated to several issues, causing contradictories and unconfortable feelings in the observers. This is his purpose: bother and inquire by traces and colors reverted in imagistic feelings. Surely his purpose.
Actually, L7M is dedicated to independent work in advertising agencies, exhibitions and workshops at enterprises, cultural centers and schools, conciliating with the urban art freely practiced.

ALL CITY CREW - ACC

Simply magnificent. SUENO, MEL, 2RODE and SWAY consist ACC Crew. Their murals speak for themselves. Enjoy!

STINKFISH in Europe

Stinkfish is a street artist from Bogotá, Colombia who is best known for creating massive, psychedelic murals based on his snapshots of local people he encounters. He converts those portraits into stencils that become the center of his wall pieces.

You will find below selecting murals by the artist during his stay in Europe between Amsterdam, Berlin, London and Bristol.

WD – Wild Drawing.

A charismatic guy coming from Bali, situated for now in Athens gives as a new vibe. Deeply politically influenced, with tones of style in his hands he has been dominating the Athenean walls for some years now. By avoiding publicity and leaving his work speak for him WD has manages to convey his revolutionary vibe. Enjoy!

LIGHTPAINTING of 1970's New York City by Eric Staller

  

These incredible light paintings were taken on the streets of New York City back in the 1970′s using nothing but a Nikon 35mm film camera, 4th of July sparklers and Christmas lights.

Light painting is a photographic technique in which exposures are made by moving the camera or a hand-held light source. By moving the light source, the light is used to selectively illuminate parts of the subject and therefore “painting” a picture by shining it directly into the camera lens.

 California-based photographer Eric Staller created these light paintings as a way to celebrate New York City’s architecture. He describes “When the moment was right I set up my Nikon on a tripod and planned a choreography with light.” Eric has written a book called Out of My Mind that provides a more intimate look at his creative process.

GOIN – Bristol’s finest.

Mostly stencils, deeply politically influenced, purely ingenious. Feel free to be amazed and DO spread the word. GOIN.

NOE TWO: Breathtaking Graffiti Artist from Paris

 Noe Two is an artist born in 1974, from Paris. It grows close to the ground wave Chapel, Theatre of the birth of Graffiti movement in France. He is a member of a group that his mark in the history of the French school: RAW (Real Authentik Writa). Noe two chose his stage name in reference to the biblical Noe. As the ark home to all animals, his work covers different approaches in graphic and pictorial compositions. 

Operating since the late eighties, it is an emblematic figure of French Graffiti, and one of the artists most full of his generation. His art unfolds on frescoes and paintings. But also in the field of graphic design: 3D modeling, photo montages and videos. 

Distinguished Artist, he pushes the limits of realistic paint bomb (spray). Its use and control dire impressive return of realism portraits on the wall as supports and canvas. In recent years, Noe Two abandoned this style to explore other possibilities. He works on an interpretation less realistic and more abstract composition with a very graphic. His works are constructed by a set of shapes, curves and colors that match.Graffiti plays with his collection of preset codes and rules. Noe Two is present on the international scene for over two decades. He participates in projects, events and sales auction in essential places and recognized artistic creation in the United States, China and Europe.

NYCHOS THE WEIRD - Some Extracts of his Amazing Work

The Austrian Illustrator and Graffiti artist NYCHOS, who is mainly known for his prolific street art concept the Rabbit Eye Movement, is set to rock the foundations of the London establishment, combining his original comic styling with heavy metal attitude.

CZARNOBYL: Stencil Art

 

Born 1974 in Poland, he lives and works in Berlin since 1993. 

Already in 1990 he began to take an interest in to cutting stencils to express his feelings and ideas. It seems like Czarnobyl’s works want to remind us of the technological progress and its’ unfulfilled promise of a better future. His creatures are completely torn, lonesome but oppressive as well as nostalgic and not yet in a common sense beautiful.

Czarnobyl’s protagonists appear much more as mutated outsiders of an evil and unequal game like the mutants of the Megapolis.